While social care funding reform appears to be stalling, elsewhere in social care policy, new and...
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Tired of waiting for Dilnot
Despite a new set of health ministers, the party conferences revealed no change in the...
Older People’s Spending: What’s in a label?
With the population ageing, we often hear grandiose statements about the need to reshape the...
Society is running out of time to renew the political party
As we approach the party conference season, the Olympics hangover, the Eurozone debt crisis and...
Misgivings on pensions
In the early days of the financial crisis, the pension industry looked to be in a rather good...
Millions of people could benefit from telecare
Telecare has long been tipped as the future of social care. Yet little has really been known about...
Civil servants advising opposition parties: can we afford not to do this?
A recent story in The Times reported that senior civil servants want closer links with Labour...
Care funding: focus on the bigger picture
Last week saw debate on social care reform slip further away from the real issues of concern. To...
The real debate on care funding reform is still to come
The government's recent progress report on care funding reform left the sector bitterly...
Generation rent could lead to benefits ‘explosion’
Daily Telegraph, June 27th, 2012 By John Bingham To read more, click here.